§ Statement of Purpose

The View from 1776 presents a framework to understand present-day issues from the viewpoint of the colonists who fought for American independence in 1776 and wrote the Constitution in 1787. Knowing and preserving those understandings, what might be called the unwritten constitution of our nation, is vital to preserving constitutional government. Without them, the bare words of the Constitution are just a Rorschach ink-blot that politicians, educators, and judges can interpret to mean anything they wish.

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

Liberal-Progressivism Promotes Murder and Racial Cleansing Policies

Darwin’s theories supported evolving moral relativism (denying the existence of God and timeless principles of human morality), which abetted a survival-of-the-fittest rationalization for Hitler’s Holocaust. Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton was the articulator of the “science” of eugenics, the belief that failure to weed out imperfect specimens from the human breeding stock would lead to mongrelization of the race and deterioration of society.

Some people are aware that Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party sterilized as many as 400,000 people. Very few know that, in the first half of the 20th century when early progressivism was making inroads against religious morality, the same inhuman process was pursued in the United States. Roughly 60,000 people, mostly in liberal-progressive California, were sterilized, against their wills. Both in Nazi Germany and among American liberal-progressives, the morally relativistic justification was the need to improve society’s human breeding stock.

Glaringly evident is liberal-progressivism’s reification of abstractions and its dislike for individual economic and political liberty. Eugenics is, in the liberal-progressive view, just another sort of class struggle: inferior humans vs superior humans (who by definition will be atheistic secularists).

Abortion and eugenics are inseparable parts of the secular religious doctrine now unconstitutionally established as our national religion and taught in our schools at taxpayer expense. Once the personal restraints of Judeo-Christian morality are swept aside, there is no limit to liberal-progressive tyranny. The only question, as we see in the Obama administration, is how barbaric that tyranny will be.